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At times it seems like the average person's ability to read is greatly diminished in recent years. Simple questions like, "I'm looking...
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It always makes me very uncomfortable when I don't know much about something but see people who clearly know much less about that thing...
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I can think of: Finding treasure Finding mundane or arcane resources Finding new lands to settle/leading settlers to same Finding new...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Nice list, which has some I hadn't thought of. My work in progress below. I conceived of it as some kind of 2d4 or 2d5 table but the...
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I was thinking along these lines. My (partial) solution was to use a RPG with mechanically simpler PC design. For example, if I wanted...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.I'm increasingly drawn to that idea. It matches much of the history. The New World explorers were bankrolled by governments. There's...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Source of the Nile (1978, Ross Maker & David Wesley) is a board game where you play explorers on Africa. Much of the game is about...
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The Firebird reacted to Enrahim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I actually had almost the same idea, and made a playable draft. However a solo test run hit a major issue: When the group got their...
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The Firebird reacted to Piperken's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Years on, I still vividly remember reading when the Company attempts to cross through the mountains, with Boromir trying to plow through...
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The Firebird reacted to Koloth's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Columbus's original plan would probably pass muster. His first voyage was an attempt to find an alternative trade route to China as a...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.This also worries me and I think it is incumbent on anyone who presents such a system to provide some good examples of other ways to...
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The Firebird reacted to Alas's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Can't stop thinking about this: to really play into the "intrepid explorer" theme, I'd want a game to have some sort of "expeditionary...
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The Firebird replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.As part of my research into the system I've been looking into Lewis & Clark. They're a recent enough expedition to have good notes and...
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